animation forever

Born in Estarreja-Portugal, in 1963. Degree in  Audiovisual Communication Technologies. Multimedia Technitian. Director of several animation short films, he was awarded in some Festivals, namely in Australia, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, United Kingdom and Portugal. He works at Cine-Clube of Avanca Animation Studios, with a large experience in animation TV series ("Alfredo", "Zé and the Penguin", "Let's go Singing", "Tortoise Walk Stories"), as animator and director. Along with Carlos Silva and Costa Valente, he directed the first Portuguese feature animation film “TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD”. FILMOGRAPHY “THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS” - Short animation, 1996, color /R.Time: 3’ “AVANCA” - Short TV series, 1999, B & W / Running Time: 30’’x 6 “DISENCHANTED HISTORIES” - Short animation, 2000, color / Running Time: 8’ “TIMOR LORO-SAE” - Short animation, 2004, color / Running Time: 11’49’’ “LET’S GO SINGING” – Short TV series, 2006, color / Running Time: 30 x 2’ “LIVING IN THE TREES” - Animation TV series, 2005, cor / Running Time: 30’’ x 25 “TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD” – Feature animation, 2007, color / Running Time: 74’ PRIZES “The Massacre of the Innocents” - 2nd Prize of the Festival CineEco 96, in Seia - Portugal. - Honour Mention in the 21º Festival TSTT, in Czech Republic 96. - Prize “António Bernardo”, in the 25º International Film Festival of Algarve in 1997 - Portugal - The Golden Prize, in 25º International Film Festival of Kromeríz/97, in the Czech Republic. - Merit Diplome in the Melbourn International Film Festival 97 - Australia - Silver Seal Award in the International Film and Video Competition, in 1998 – U.K.. “Disenchanted Histories” - Screenplay prize in the Avanca competition - AVANCA 2000 – Portugal - Bronze Cinema Award in the animation category of the Melbourn Int. Festival of 2000 – Australia - Special Prize of Jury in the “TSTTT International Film Festival 2000” - Czech Republic - Animation Best Film in Arouca Cinema Festival 2005 – Portugal “Timor Loro-Sae” - Avanca Competition Prize, in the AVANCA’04 International Meetings of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia – Portugal - Best animation film, in the 6th Thessaloniki International Panorama Film Festival 2004 – Greece - Best Animation film, in the IV Corroios Film Festival 2004 – Portugal - Prize of the Best Editing – “Cortodrome 2005” – Italy